Watch-fob



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WATCH FOB.

APPLICATION FILED ocT.29, I9I9.

Patented Maul, 1921.

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UNITED STATES "IPATEN T OFFICE.v

JOSEPH KOMOROUS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO PARISIAN NOVELTY COM- l PANY, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A

CORPORATION OF ILLINOI WATCH-FOB.

Application'led October 29, 1919. Serial'No. 334,238.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it knoWn that I, JOSEPH KoMoRoUs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful' Improvement in Watch-Fobs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates, as to a certain feature thereof, to an improvement in Watch fobs, my object in this connection being to provide a novel and simple construction of device for use more particularly as an advertising novelty; and also as to another feature thereof, generally, to the provision of means, in the nature of a buckle device, for attaching to a body, as for example a Watch fob medallion, a flexible suspendingr element, as for example a strap, and my object in this connection is to provide novel,

simple, and economical means of this character, and preferably so constructed as to prevent disengagement of the suspending element therefrom.

Referring to the accompanying draw@ ings F igure 1 is a face vieW of a Watch fob embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is an edge vieri7 thereof. Fig. 3 is a face view of the medallion portion of the Watch fob; and Fig. 4, a broken, enlarged, section taken at the line 4 on Fig. l and viewed in the direction of the arrow.

In the particular construction shown, 5 represents the medallion portion of a Watch fob, which may be ornamented or not as desired, and Which as shown is formed with a raised circular part 6 on Which any suitable design or legendary or display matter may be presented, as for example by forming it of a circular disk secured to the portion 5 in any desirable manner and covered by celluloid through which the matter provided on the outer face of the disk referred to may be viewed. The portion 5 may be made of any suitable material, as for example metal or fiber, and in accordance with one of the features of my invention, is provided integrally therewith with 4means indicated at 7, and in the nature of a buckle device, for securing tothe medallion 5 the iexible suspending element of the fob, this element being represented at 8 and shown as formed of a strap folded upon itself to present the loop 9, its opposite end being secured to the buckle device 7. The buckle device as shown is 'formed by providing in by a bar-section the medallion 5, preferably. partly in an' eX- tension 10 of the medallion, a pair of slots ll'and 12 which 'are arranged in parallel relation and are 13, the bar-section 13-and the outer cross-member, or barsection,l14 of the buckle device being equipped .with tits 15and 16 located preferably midway between the ends of the slots 11 and 12 and projecting part Way through vthe latter, the distance from the extremity of the tit 15 to the Wall V17, Which latter isp preferably slightly curved, and the distance from the extremity ofthe tit 16 -to the Wall 18, .Which latter is also preferably slightly curved, in each instance being less than twice the thickness of the material of which the strap portion 48 is constructed.` l

In accordance With the preferred embodi ment ofthe invention, thestrap portion 8 isv looped'ashereinbefore stated and. its pfree ,ends -connectedpwith the medallion 5 by threading them through the slots 12 and 11 and interlocking them with this part of the device. strap represented at 19 contains an aperture 20 and the other free end 21 of the strap contains an aperture 22. In connecting the strap with the medallion as` shown, the end portion 19 is first threaded through the slot 12 from the back of the medallion and this part of the strap interlocked With the'tit 16 at the opening 20 therein as shown in the drawing. The other end portion v21 is then introduced from the back of the medallion through the slot 12 and then introduced from the front side of the medallion into the slot 11, the tit 15 entering the opening 22 therein, the free end 19 being then introduced from the front side of the medallion through the slot 11. It Will be understood that by reason of the proportioning ofthe slots 11 and 12 relative to the tits 15 and 16, as stated, the end portions 19 and 21 cannot possibly disengage from the tits 16 and 15, respectively, and thus the element 8 is securely held in assembled position with the medallion 5.

particular construction embodying my inven- One of the free ends of they PatentedlW-Iar. 1 192.1. I

Vseparated from each other Y tion, I donot Wish to be understood as insaid slots, one of said end portions at an tending to limit it thereto as the saine may unperforated part thereof extending into be' variously' 'modied and altered Without onefof said 'slots bet'vveentheone oi" said departin `from 'the 'spiritof my invention. projections adjacent thereto and the Wall of 5 What claim as new and desire tousecure the slot opposing the latter, and` the other by Letters Patent .isz j of said end portions at an unperforated porl. A buckle `device comprising a member tion thereof extending into the other of said containing'V a plurality oislotsvvithprojecl slots between the projection adjacent ltheretions extending adjacent said slots, and a to andthe Wall of the slot opposing-the last 10 flexible element presenting end portions each referred to projection.

I containing an opening, said end portions ex- 3. A Watch fob having a medallion portending into said slots, With said projection provided with aplnrality of slotsadjations extending into said openings, the discent its edge, and projections extending into l tancebetween'theextremities of the projeoV- such slots, said projections extending in the 15 tions and the respective opposing Walls ot same direction. V

the lslots adjacent to the projections being 4f. 'ln a Watch rob, an Venlarged portion less vthan the combined thickness of Ythe tWo forming a medallion and having a relatively end Vportions of said elementextending into smaller neck-portion extending therefrom, said slots, each of said' end portions eX-terl'dslotsi-n said smaller portion, and projections 2o ing linto both vofy said slots. Y

n 2. A buckle device comprising a member tially across said slots` containing a plurality of slots with projec- 5.. buckle device comprising a member f tions extending adjacent said slots, and a containing a plurality of slots, projections flexible elementI presenting e'nd portionseacli adjacent said slots and extending partially 25 containing'an opening,V said end portions across the same7 said 'slots'and rprojections extending i-nto said slots, With vsaid pro` being so Vproportioned that the combi-ned jectigons extending vinto said openings, the thickness of two 'strap portions When'thread` distance between theL extremities of the proed through said slots `will be greater Athan jecti'ons and the respective opposing Walls the distance 'from the extremity ofthe pro- 30 of the slots adjacent to the projections lbeing jections and thel opposite Wal-l oi' the slot 1to less than the combined thickness of thetwo Ward which they extend. vend portions of said element extending'into Y JOSEPH V'KOMOROUS.

extendingxin the same direction and' par-y 

